San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-09
EDITORIAL BREvT1HsL

words by way OF chssing the grain gam
blers, who stock the cards and then
raise the poor people Of a whole nation
out OF their boots before they call hands
on sure game.
BUFFALO BILL seems to have the call
| on English gold and John Ia so much
afraid of losing his sOvereigns that he IL
sending them over to this country.
About half a million was received this
week.
The testimony against the officers of
| the busted Infidelity bank grows more
conclusive and the Federal courts will
soon have q case strong enough TO stand
the strain OF vigorous defense. The
penitentiary looms ominOusly before the
gang.
WHEN Chicago pork sells for Sl4.50 In
New York and brings So 90 in Chicago,
| there is something wrong with the long
| and short haul. Ii should not be long
before some one took the pork gamblers
and hauled them before the courts for
| conspiracy to defraud.
SAN Angeles has contracted for $780,
| OOO of the bituminOus paving rock, re-
Gently discovered near San Luis ObispO,
| Cal. The find Is said to be ineXhausti-
| Bile.
METHODIST JIM" OF the Franklin
| Herald, is one of the Old breed, and
while he quotes scripture as glibly as
quarter horse can run, takes no stock in
bible boosted prohibition.
Boston also goes prohibition. That
city prohibits, by authority of the school
board, the use of tobacco In all the
school buildings Of the city. The girls
are in arms over the order, expecting
that the board" will soon lay its pro-
fame fingers upon the gum privileges of
the girls.
The west ia the home OF big things.
Way out west in Sidney, Australia,
there is an electric light OF $50. 900 candle
power. 1t would take q very large nat
| ural gas we'll to eclipse that illumination.
| A burner like that on "Dullnig's plug
hat" would flood the darkness out of
| San Antonio and put an embargo on gate
swinging.
SHOULD this amendment carry the
| governor would be beseiged with petit
| rons innumerable and interminabIe for
Am extra session OF the legislature. The
| pressure that won d be brought TO bear
| upon this matter would compel some at
| trntiOn TO the demand.
IL the Kerrville Eye is not pleased
with the size Of the prohibition crowds
| in San Antonio IL should cast its optics
over the dry hosts and burn new enthu-
s!asm into them with Its flashing Orbs.
| The press of San Antonio cannot be held
! r, spOnsible because prohibition in San
| Antonio does not fill the large measure
| of the expectation OF the Eye.
The Kerrville Eye, screwing the beam
| into Its home optic, and charging the
mote which it behOds In San Antonio,
| remarks, concerning that car driver and
the baby, that the place for the driver
was between the traces of his car. Not
very CrOss-eyed remark, after all.
MAxwELL's attorney says that he has
| made his last move, that he will make
no application to the supreme court nor
to the governor. The end OF the rope
has been reached so far as the law Is
concerned and Maxwell must reach the
hangmsn's rope about August 26. II
takes an awful amount of work TO hang
this monster Of villany.
ITALY is running out OF revenue. The
| Pompeii discoveries yield no more re-
turns, and the government is about to
excavate the site of ancient Syb8sis,
where no less interesting discoveries are
anticipated. This city lies under the
waters of the river Crate, where 1t has
repOsed in dreamless peace for twenty
| five centuries.
The grand army posts Of Utica, n. Y,
| are not Of the same mind as the Massa-
ohusetts post that taffiied Grover yester-
day. The four Utica posts will not parade
at the Clinton centennial on the 18th If
| Cleveland puts in an appearance. These
| New York "boys In blue know too
much Of CleVelRnd's history, as prOmi-
nent Buffalo cOpperhesd.
If selling whisky demoralizes man,
what effect will peddling prohibition
have upon the preacher ordained to
preach the mysteries OF the gospel oil
| Christ. IL prohibition is one OF these
mysteries, 1t certainly has been hidden
from ages and from generations, for to-
tsl abstinence was not praetloed by
Christ, or his apostles. The NaZsrine
prophet was called a"wine bibber" and
the friend of publicans and sinners.
THE Castroville Anvil does not believe
in premature resurrection. 1t COM
plains that Kernel HerndOn," VINO
Twelve years since was given political
burial in Smith county, as man IN
worthy public confidence is now gal
Yanized into life by the prOhibitiOnists
and comes forth with his grave clothes
around him as a full fledged democrat
purged from his offences. The Anvil
thinks that the pTOhibs will also bury
him before the campaign is over In
this thing the Anvil ia little of. The
| Observation-Disclosures will do the buTying
and the ceremony will be performed
! August 4, 1857.